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Anglo Avenger developer Joe McNamara who famously drove his cement mixer into the gates of Dail Eireann on Budget Day will not be walking in the main door of Leinster House in March as an elected TD after he dramatically decided not to put his name forward for election in Galway West.

THE TOWN Hall Theatre will launch a pilot programme for new work this May called Studio THT.

To help you prepare for spring and summer the Galway Hat Shop is receiving fabulous new accessories daily for the current season.

Galway ladies face a second difficult tie at the start of the National Football League when they travel to face last year’s beaten All-Ireland finalists Tyrone.

The Galway footballers were 5/2 in the bookies to be relegated from division one this time last week, but following their poor and inept second-half performance last Sunday against Monaghan (the other team expected to go down), they have been made outright favourites at 4/7 to make the drop to the second tier.

GALWAY ARTIST Megs Morley has been appointed as the curator of the TULCA 2011 visual arts festival, which will take place from November 4 to 20.

Does your business or any business you know deserve to be recognised and rewarded for its efforts in promoting the Irish language. Then make sure that you nominate it or yourself for Galway’s best bilingual business awards competition.

A 21-year-old Mayo woman, who became abusive at Galway Garda Station after being told it would be a two-hour wait before she would be able to see her arrested boyfriend, was fined €250 this week.

A new Erris Beo initiative is set to transform the tourism industry for the North West Mayo area and promote the Barony of Erris as an outstanding cultural and natural heritage destination.

What do people do when the law prevents them from protecting themselves? That’s the question at the heart of The Pipe, a stirring, character-rich documentary from Risteard O’Domhnaill about Shell vs Rossport, Ireland, where the oil company decides to run a gas line, and the community decide otherwise.